How to build a portrait with dice

http://www.elusivesnark.com/2008/11/carolines-dice-portrait.html

by l0stman • 15 years ago

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Avshalom• 15 years ago

step 2. design 3000 tiny robotic hands to rotate the die in real time to make a dice mirror, finally outdoing Rozin's wooden mirrors.

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html

earbitscom• 15 years ago

Amazing.

sambeau• 15 years ago

That's cool. I wonder if it might have been improved by applying a Floyd–Steinberg dithering (or some such) first?

aeurielesn• 15 years ago

I made a gist of it right away! I don't want to lose it, even though I already read the idea behind it.

T_S_• 15 years ago

Wonder what the reverse side looks like. Come to think of it it would be cool to slice the dice, to save weight and numbers.

thebooktocome• 15 years ago

The opposite sides of a die add up to seven. So the opposite side of the picture just looks like the negative of the image.

hypeibole• 15 years ago

I am not following your train of thought. Care to elaborate a little?

zeteo• 15 years ago

This would be such a great Mindstorms project. If the dice came packaged all in the same orientation, you wouldn't even need the camera sensor.

brador• 15 years ago

For anyone wondering, that's about $200 of dice retail and around $100 wholesale.

Sparragus• 15 years ago

Where would you buy this wholesale?

sgdesign• 15 years ago

I'm a designer, and this got me wondering if it was possible to achieve the same effect using Photshop. Turns out it's actually possible, so I wrote a quick tutorial:

http://www.attackofdesign.com/how-to-build-a-portrait-with-d...

Liu• 15 years ago

There are similar portraits done with Rubik's Cubes http://freshome.com/2011/11/08/dream-big-rubik%E2%80%99s-cub...

umarmung• 15 years ago

"It weighs close to 100 pounds." - for that weight, I'll take the girl instead.

But seriously, 2560 dice => 17gram 16mm-size dice. That's very heavy dice for their size. I would have expected less than a quarter that!

How to build a portrait with dice

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